Police: Town water tower likely punctured by gunshot

WICKSBURG | An Alabama town is hooking hundreds of residents into another water system after someone apparently fired a gun at a City of Taylor water tower.

The Associated Press

WICKSBURG | An Alabama town is hooking hundreds of residents into another water system after someone apparently fired a gun at a City of Taylor water tower. Taylor Field Supervisor Charles Douglas said he discovered a hole in the city’s water tower off Bump Road in Wicksburg on Monday morning. Douglas told The Dothan Eagle that it appears someone shot the tower with a rifle, and that he thinks it was intentional. Douglas said city employees drained the tower and took it out of service on Monday. He said workers connected the 600 customers in the Wicksburg community into the Dothan water system. It is deer hunting season, and several hunters are using rifles, though it’s not known whether a stray shot punctured the tower. No arrests have been made.